Buckle attachment



(No Model.)

W. P. TINSLEY.

BUCKLE ATTACHMENT.

No. 326,350. Patented Sept. 15, 1885.

% TOR 44% WITNESSES Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WVILLIAM POLLOCK TINSLEY, OF DALLASBURY, KENTUCKY.

BUCKLE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326.350, dated September 15, 1885. Application filed July 2, 1885. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. TINsLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallasbury, in the county of Owen and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching-Buckles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this improvement is a convenient, durable, and secure means of detachably connecting bridle-reins to bits, traces to hames, and other straps forming parts of harness to their usual ring-connections. These results are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings herewith filed as part hereof, in which the same letters of reference denote the same parts in the different views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buckleconnection embodying the features of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

A is a link made of a narrow and more or less thick metal plate or rod bent to form a loop, a at the part a, and widened at the end A and part A A where it is provided With a slot, A, for the reception of the tongue M) of the buckle B, and arranged to lap around the bar of the'same and under the end A, and with the latter be riveted to the part A as shown at a; or the rivet may be omitted, one end of the buckle-frame resting on the end A when the device is in operation, and preventing the same springing from its proper position.

When applied to a bridle-bit, the end A of the link is hooked through the ring before the link-laps A A are riveted to the part A When applied to hames, the mechanism is attached to the hame by means of astaple passed through the loop a or other suitable means.

The utility of the device as a connection for reins with bridle-bits is obvious, from the fact that instead of therein lapping around the ring of the bit the link will supply the place of the lap, and the rein will not be partly submerged and frequently soaked when the horse is watered, which causes the part of the rein lapping the bit-ring to crack, rot, and easily cut or break, whereby the bridle is made insecure and life may be endangered, and occasional repairs certain to be made necessary.

The construction I use admits of the loop being constructed of material that will not fracture by shocks, and also produces a device of little cost.

I am aware that snap-hooks have been secured to buckles for a somewhat similar purpose to my device; but as snap-hooks must either be constructed of several pieces in order to insure the requisite strength, or, if made of one piece, must have a portion atleast of elastic metal, leaving the piece against which the spring engages without support, and hence liable to straighten out, and thus cause accidents and endanger life, I consider the loop made of one piece and so formed as to have the contiguous ends secured, and thus presenting no weak spot, as possessing decided and obvious advantages in cheapness of construction and absolute safety in operation.

Having explained the features of my improvement, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

As an improved article of manufacture, an attachingbu ckle consisting of a buckle proper and aplate or rod having a shorter end encircling the tongue-bar of the buckle, and a longer end bent upon itself to form a loop and extended along the body of the plate, its extremity resting on the extremity of the shorter end beneath the rear bar of the buckle-frame, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM POLLOGK TINSLEY.

, Witnesses:

JOHN DUVALL, THoMAs CRUTCHER. 

